The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for in-depth and investigative stories on misinformation, science denial, pseudoscience, and the systems behind deceptive news. We encourage applicants to identifying responses to the spread of mistruths in their communities.
This opportunity is open to all newsroom staff and independent journalists worldwide.
GRANT OVERVIEW
The Pulitzer Center is eager to support timely, in-depth journalism projects that tackle science denial and the spread of science misinformation and disinformation for its new Truth Decay grant initiative. This opportunity is open to all newsroom staff and independent journalists in the United States and abroad.
The goal of this new initiative is two-fold: 1) to expose the purveyors and platforms that spread science misinformation and disinformation with accountability journalism; and 2) to support newsrooms and journalists to develop their own innovative responses to the spread of mistruths in their communities or countries.
WE ARE EAGER TO RECEIVE PROPOSALS THAT EXPLORE:
- How and why scientific misinformation and pseudoscience spreads and the role journalists play in exposing and countering it;
- The challenges of reporting on science with non-stop news cycles, science disinformation campaigns, and increasingly fragmented and siloed audiences;
- Who is creating the science misinformation and who is benefiting from its creation, and what forces or organizations are enabling the flows of anti-science “studies” and misinformation to circulate;
- Unique and different perspectives on pseudoscience and misinformation in mass media and society;
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